Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis